Test 1 · Pencils, paper and school things
«don't chew ur pencil, it's lead, u'll be poisoned» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pencil · What happens: not chew, be, poison · To what, where: pencil, lead, u · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 chew | punct |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 chew | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 chew | advmod |
| 4 | chew | chew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pencil | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lead | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lead | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lead | cop |
| 10 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 poisoned | punct |
| 12 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 poisoned | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 15 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chew | parataxis |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 poisoned | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 right | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 poisoned | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 chew | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not chew in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | ur's pencil | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | pencil | lead | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | poison in a quote | future · passive | u | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
Yes, every pencil holds poisonous metal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 holds | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 pencil | det |
| 4 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holds | nsubj |
| 5 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 metal | amod |
| 7 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holds | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | every pencil | poisonous metal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, but only once it is sharpened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sharpened | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 sharpened | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 8 sharpened | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sharpened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 8 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Yes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpen | present · passive | it | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
No, pencils are made of chocolate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 pencils | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | pencils | pencil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chocolate | case |
| 7 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | pencils | of chocolate | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Pencil lead is graphite, not the metal lead, though chewing pencils is still a bad habit
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lead | compound |
| 2 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 graphite | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 graphite | cop |
| 4 | graphite | graphite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lead | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 lead | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lead | det |
| 8 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | compound |
| 9 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 graphite | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 habit | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 habit | mark |
| 12 | chewing | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 habit | csubj |
| 13 | pencils | pencil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chewing | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 habit | cop |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 habit | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 habit | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 habit | amod |
| 18 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 graphite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pencil lead | graphite and a bad habit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chew | gerund | pencils | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | chewing | a bad habit | still | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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